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Project Leaders: John Gibbons, NYS IPM Program, Curt Petzoldt,
NYS IPM Program, Geneva, Tim Weigle NYS IPM Program, Fredonia, and
Cheryl TenEyck, NYS IPM Program
Type of grant: (not funded in the grants program) Monitoring,
forecasting, and economic thresholds
Project location(s): all counties in New York, some in Pennsylvania.
Website accessible internationally
Abstract: NEWA maintained the electronic weather network
in the 2003 growing season with support from NEWA members and the
New York State IPM Program. As a result of the free subscriptions
provided by the IPM Program in 2003, NEWA usage rose an additional
7% compared to 2002 when it rose 84% as a result of the first announcement
of the free service. The number of people receiving NEWA information
is much larger than that measured by web hits since information from
NEWA is used in crop updates and Extension newsletters. The National
Weather Service provides weather forecasts for the network and continues
to provide new forecast products that NEWA makes available on the
web site. The Northeast Regional Climate Center continued to provide
links to evapotranspiration maps based on data from the cooperative
network. In addition, in 2003, the Climate Center provided daily ET
information from several of the NEWA sites that are capable of supplying
the necessary data needed in the ET calculations and also from sites
in the cooperative network. Two loggers were upgraded with wind and
solar measurements and that data could be used for evapotranspiration
information. One new site was added to the network in 2003 in Tioga
County. Degree day forecasts based on weather forecasts were also
provided for the first time.
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